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# crockery

noun (no plural)

«crockery» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Crockery is plates, cups, bowls and dishes made of baked clay or china. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crockery/#m1)

### In the lessons

the dishes and cups of a house, often in stories broken or left lying about

### Examples

- Then he stumbled against a piece of broken crockery. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crockery/#x1)
- She washed the crockery after supper. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crockery/#x2)
- The crockery is stacked on the kitchen shelf. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crockery/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths; a count of plates is a count of separate pieces, and the word does not say how many there are.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «crockery» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crockery/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«crockery» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/crockery.html) on Mova free.